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Barnet 1967
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barnet]
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PREVALENCE AND CONTROL OF INFECTIOUS AND OTHER DISEASES
The following table shows the number of corrected notifications received during the year:
| Scarlet Fever | 74 | (79) |
| Whooping Cough | 136 | (82) |
| Acute Poliomyelitis: Paralytic | - | |
| Non-Paralytic | — | — |
| Measles | 2694 | (1853) |
| Diphtheria | — | — |
| Dysentery | 39 | (34) |
| Meningococcal Infection | 1 | (4) |
| Acute Pneumonia | 21 | (11) |
| Smallpox | — | — |
| Acute Encephalitis: Infective | (1) | |
| Post-Infectious | — | (1) |
| Typhoid Fever | 5 | (2) |
| Paratyphoid Fever | — | (1) |
| Erysipelas | 5 | (7) |
| Food Poisoning | 70 | (35) |
| Tuberculosis: Respiratory | 84 | (88) |
| Meninges and C.N.S. | 4 | (3) |
| Other | 19 | (12) |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 74 | (62) |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 2 | (3) |
| Anthrax | — | — |
| Cholera | — | — |
| Plague | — | — |
| Relapsing Fever | — | — |
| Malaria | — | — |
| Membranous Croup | - | - |
| 3228 | (2278) |
Figures in parenthesis were notifications received for the year 1966.
Food Poisoning
In February 1967 there was an outbreak of gastro-enteritis in a residential government establishment
in the Borough involving 50 young men, of whom 17 had vomiting only, 6 diarrhoea only, and
27 vomiting and diarrhoea. The illness lasted for less than 24 hours, and all those affected recovered
fully. The patients and kitchen staff were investigated, at the request of the Medical Officer of the
establishment, but no organism was isolated. The general hygiene of the establishment was also
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